Day: July 17, 2014

How Russian Hackers Stole the Nasdaq

In October 2010, a Federal Bureau of Investigation system monitoring U.S. Internet traffic picked up an alert. The signal was coming from Nasdaq (NDAQ). It looked like malware had snuck into the company’s central servers. There were indications that the intruder was not a kid somewhere, but the intelligence agency of another country. More troubling still: When…

SRI/Cambridge Opens CHERI Secure Processor Design

An anonymous reader writes with some exciting news from the world of processor design: Robert Watson at Cambridge has written a blog post on SRI/Cambridge’s recent open sourcing of the hardware and software for the DARPA-sponsored CHERI processor – including laser cutting directions for an FPGA-based tablet! Described in their paper The CHERI … (more)…